Elections are just weeks away but there is no end to the woes of Congress in
Maharashtra. In the latest, senior congress leader and former Mumbai Congress
chief Sanjay Nirupam today dropped a bombshell denouncing the state party
leadership and accused it of sidelining him.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on the 150th
birth anniversary of the Father of the Nation. PM Modi along with a host of
BJP leaders and top ministers visited Rajghat early morning to offer prayers
to Mahatma Gandhi. Top Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and
others were also present at the Rajghat to pay tributes.
Meanwhile, A day after it was prevented from taking out a march in support of
the law student who has accused former Union minister Swami Chinmayanand of
rape, the Congress on Tuesday announced that party workers led by Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra will undertake a 'padyatra' on Gandhi Jayanti in Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a series of petitions related to J&K today.
A 5-Judge bench headed by NV Ramanna will hear 11 pleas related to the
abrogation J&K’s special status that it enjoyed under Article 370

While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a spree to inaugurate
dozens of Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata, the BJP, which has been eyeing the
same, has barely managed to get just one puja pandal for Union Home Minister
Amit Shah to inaugurate on October 1.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi skipped S Jaishankar's opening
address at the SAARC foreign minister's. The foreign ministers of India and
Pakistan were not in the same room at any point of time.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been conferred the 'Global Goalkeeper
Award’ for the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan launched by the government. Trump has
said that it will be great if PM Modi and Imran Khan can "work out
something" on Kashmir.

A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a spectacular welcome at
Houston, his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan received nothing but a cold
shoulder during his bilateral meeting with the US president.